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Values: Stretching and Embracing the Unembraceable
In this paper, I attempt a linguistic analysis of how lexeme values is used in academic sources. Without criticising the extensive use of this notion, I address the gap between what values are supposed to mean and what they can mean in a broader ...
Ruslan Saduov
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Semantic Structure of the Lexeme “litso” and the Lexeme “a face”
<p><em>The article introduces a new approach in linguocognitology based on the semantic analysis of the lexemes, which may become perspective in the studies of the triad: language-personality-national world view. The papers determines the aim—the research of the semantic structure of the lexemes, and the object—common neutral words “litso ...
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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IMAGE OF THE HUMAN WORLD AND SEMANTIC ORGANIZATION OF LEXICON IN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUISTICS
The article deals with the issues related to the development of principles and methods of semantic organization of lexicon in order to create linguistic resources of various types: dictionaries, databases, corpora, etc. Different techniques of semantic
Irina V. Shaposhnikova
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Description and acquisition of multiword lexemes [PDF]
This paper deals with multiword lexemes (MWLs), focussing on two types of verbal MWLs: verbal idioms and support verb constructions. We discuss the characteristic properties of MWLs, namely nonstandard compositionality, restricted substitutability of components, and restricted morpho-syntactic flexibility, and we show how these properties may cause ...
Storrer, Angelika, Schwall, Ulrike
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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The Polysemy of the Lexeme 'Stone'
ABSTRACT: The terms from the sphere of lexeme piatra (stone) are developing metaphorical meanings. The images based on the term piatra (stone) are spreading their semantics on different dimensions, from the usual meaning to a plastic representation viewed vertically. To fulfill the proposed purpose, we will stop at a research minicorpus composed on the
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Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
ABSTRACT This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude, bro, girl, dear, love ...
Mariam Gagua +4 more
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Významové souvislosti univerbizátů a s nimi stejně znějících výrazů v textech současné češtiny
Univerbization is a process of word-formation by which the words of a compound lexeme or of a syntactic construction fuse into a single word/one-word lexeme: that one-word lexeme is called univerbizate (in Czech univerbizát - a result of the process of ...
Ivana Kolářová
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Semantic-Cognitive Study of HOUSE Concept in Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel “Mashen’ka”
The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that it is performed in the framework of a new research direction in linguistics - cognitive, established at the turn of 20th-21st centuries.
M. M. Morarash
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